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Emergency medical services in Singapore

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 May 2015

Fatimah Lateef  and
V. Anantharaman
Fatimah Lateef*
Affiliation:
Department of Emergency Medicine, Singapore General Hospital, Singapore
V. Anantharaman
Affiliation:
Department of Emergency Medicine, Singapore General Hospital, Singapore
*
Singapore General Hospital, Outram Road, Singapore 169608; tel 65 3214100, fax 65 2260294, f_lateef@hotmail.com

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Type
International EM • MU Internationale
Information
Canadian Journal of Emergency Medicine , Volume 2 , Issue 4 , October 2000 , pp. 272 - 275
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Association of Emergency Physicians 2000

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